The elegant chambers of the castle, surrounded by a springtide garden. A figure concealed in the night had entered the ballroom, easily avoiding the groups gathered. It had been only a fragment of the night, stepping away from the laboratory and the experiments. Vexen could easily continue with the research, besides he wasn't interested in the replica.
Couples swayed gracefully across the ballroom, colorful, filled with life. Submerged in their own joys, fully savoring it with their own hearts. Pathetic. Hearts infested with rage, ire, hatred, darkness, where the essence of power. While these
( ... )
He moved in and out of the people, cutting through them as if he weren't really there. Besides his Somebody, there were few people in Purg that had that lazy alleycat strut to them, the look of him someone who had no particular place to go or thing on his mind. There couldn't be anything further from the truth
( ... )
Axel wasn't the only one wearing a mask. Roxas flinched from his voice, turning too quickly to look, and for a second his expression was painful and honest.
Then his chin came up and he looked at Axel like a stranger, calm and controlled and deliberately neutral. The unconscious clench of his fists gave him away rather neatly, though.
"Someone had to keep an eye on things," he answered guardedly, watching Axel watch him. His gaze kept flicking to Axel's hands without the gloves. The last time he'd seen them bare like that, they'd been tracing over his skin.
Don't think about that.
The thing in his chest twinged again and he thought, I know, I know.
That green gaze moved over Roxas, trying to show nothing of what he was seeing. Axel never had been very good at containing himself. It was like trying to catch fire in a jar. It either died from lack of oxygen or blazed out of control. His own discomfort and upset always found a way through, especially at that disconnected stare from Roxas.
"Still everyone's hero."
Those fingers rose as if to touch on something near his throat again before he forced them back to his sides. Leaning lazily on the wall with an ease he didn't feel, Axel frowned at Roxas' question.
"I didn't have a date. I ... just decided to come. To see who all was here."
To see if Roxas was here is more like it, an inner voice snarkily reminded him. This whole Conscience thing was annoying. If he ever saw that little fuck Jimney Cricket, he was stepping on him.
His jaw clenched at being called a hero. Yeah right. Like he'd done anything at all to help anyone during his time here. Even Riku, all he'd done was trip over the body
( ... )
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Couples swayed gracefully across the ballroom, colorful, filled with life. Submerged in their own joys, fully savoring it with their own hearts. Pathetic. Hearts infested with rage, ire, hatred, darkness, where the essence of power. While these ( ... )
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Then his chin came up and he looked at Axel like a stranger, calm and controlled and deliberately neutral. The unconscious clench of his fists gave him away rather neatly, though.
"Someone had to keep an eye on things," he answered guardedly, watching Axel watch him. His gaze kept flicking to Axel's hands without the gloves. The last time he'd seen them bare like that, they'd been tracing over his skin.
Don't think about that.
The thing in his chest twinged again and he thought, I know, I know.
"What happened to your date?"
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"Still everyone's hero."
Those fingers rose as if to touch on something near his throat again before he forced them back to his sides. Leaning lazily on the wall with an ease he didn't feel, Axel frowned at Roxas' question.
"I didn't have a date. I ... just decided to come. To see who all was here."
To see if Roxas was here is more like it, an inner voice snarkily reminded him. This whole Conscience thing was annoying. If he ever saw that little fuck Jimney Cricket, he was stepping on him.
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